'We need to ask ourselves, why don't they want us to vote — why is there so much effort to silence our voices? The answer is because when we vote, things change,' Sen. Harris said at the start of Wednesday night's convention.
"If you vote by mail, request your ballot now and send it back right away," she said during her address."If you vote in person, do it early. Become a poll worker. Most of all, no matter what, vote."
Voting experts say that voter education is critical to a successful 2020 election, because election policies are changing so quickly and so many voters are unfamiliar with voting by mail. Election officials who typically inform voters are overwhelmed and resource-strapped."Even the most frequent and educated of voters are reasonably confused," Wendy Weiser, vice president of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law, told NBC News.
Weiser said Trump's inaccurate claims that mail balloting leads to significant voter fraud were damaging public confidence in elections. "The changes brought by coronavirus has created the need for increased public education, but so has the president’s misdirection and attempts to sow confusion," she said.
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